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Wondrous Words Wednesday

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I found these words while reading TANGERINE by Christine Mangan.

1. hammam – “Instead he and his friend Charlie went gallivanting around the city, spending hours at the hammam or the markets, smoking kif in the backs of cafés, always trying to enear themselves to the locals rather than to their fellow coworkers and countrymen.”

A hammam is a communal bathhouse, usually with separate baths for men and women, usually found in Islamic countries.

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2. msemmen – “I stopped at one stall, and then another, purchasing a few grams of bright green olives at one, a stack of hot, sweating msemmen at another.”

Msemmen is a rich, pancake-like bread common to Morocco, Algiers, and Tunisia.